Cigarette carton



June 26, 1928. 1,674,775

E. M. GILBERT CIGARETTE CARTON Filed Feb. 23, 1927 Patented June 25, 1928.

ERNEST MARK GILBERT, OF LONDON, ENGLAND.

CIGARETTE CARTON.

Application filed February 23, 1927, Serial No. 170,347, and in Belgium February 26, 1926.

This invention relates to cigarette cartons and has for its object a carton in which a strip of matches with heads wide apart are mounted on a wall of the carton. The carton conveniently combined with a holder or spacer for the cigarettes which is adapted to form a sti'il'ener for the walls of the carton.

An embodiment of the invention is illustrated by way of example in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 shows a perspective front view.

Figure 2 shows a perspective rear View f Figure 1.

Figure 3 shows a detail perspective View of the holder and stiffener.

Figure 4 shows an end View of Figure 3, and

Figure 5 shows diagrammatically an alternative form of holder and stiffener.

Referring now to the drawings, the carton comprises the usual outer casing l and sliding drawer 2. As shown in Figure 2 the rear face of the drawer 2 has mounted thereon in any convenient manner a strip of tear-- of? matches 3 preferably with heads 4 wide apart to enable the carton to be transported by rail without risk of spontaneous combustion through the heads of the matches rubbing against each other in transit.

It should be understood that although the match strip is shown attached to the rear face of the sliding drawer 2 it may be mounted on any face of the carton which offers an area sufl'icient to take a suitable number of matches.

The cigarette spacer and stiifener shown more particularly in Figures 3 and 4 is adapted to form a series of rectangular cells 5 each designed to receive two cigarettes as shown in Figure 4. This holder is adapted to be placed in the drawer 2 and may be conveniently provided with flanges 6 adapted to engage over the side walls of the drawer 2 as shown in Figures 1 and 2. It

will be readily understood that the holder and stiffener thus formed will support the walls of the carton and prevent it from being crushed with its content-s in the pocket when most of the cigarettes have been removed therefrom, or during transport with the consequent risk of spontaneous combustion through the relative displacement of the match heads.

The carton illustrated in the drawings is designed to take 10 cigarettes, but it should be understood that this carton is only illus trated by way of example, and that a cigarette container can be obtained by doubling the width of the carton and the spacer and stilfener.

It should be understood that the above described stiffener may take other forms. For instance an alternative form of stiffener and holder for a lO-cigarette carton may be'in the form shown in Figure 5, in which a connected pair of tapering cells 7 are de signed as shown to take an under row of two cigarettes and an upper row of three cigarettes. Such a stiffener for a 20-cigarette carton is of dimensions to take an under row of four cigarettes and an upper row of six cigarettes, or four cells containing rows of two and three cigarettes. As shown in Figure 2 I may provide a striker 8 of suitable material.

What I claim is In a cigarette carton, the combination of a strip of matches with heads wide apart mounted on a wall of the carton, a cigarette holder adapted to fill the carton chamber and to bear against the walls of said carton to form a stiffener for said Walls of said carton, a series of cells of rectangular form in said holder and flanges at each edge of said holder adapted to engage over the side walls of the drawer of said carton.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification.

ERNEST MARK GILBERT. 

